It's Oh So Quiet

Infobox Single
Name = It's Oh So Quiet

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Img_capt = EUR/UK CD1
Artist = Björk
from Album = Post
B-side = "Sweet Sweet Intuition"
"My Spine"
Released = November 13, 1995
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Musical, Big Band, Jazz
Length = 3:41
Label = One Little Indian
Writer = Hans Lang, Bert Reisfeld
Producer = Björk
Nellee Hooper
Certification =
Last single = "Isobel"
(1995)
This single = "It's Oh So Quiet"
(1995)
Next single = "Hyper-Ballad"
(1996)Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Type = single

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Lower caption = EUR/UK CD2Extra album cover 2

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Lower caption = US CD PromoExtra album cover 2

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Lower caption = EUR VHS + CD set

"It's Oh So Quiet" performed by Björk is a renamed cover of the Betty Hutton song "Blow a Fuse". It remains her biggest hit, reaching #4 in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK singles chart, generating plenty of mainstream airplay. Fuelled by the Spike Jonze-directed music video clip, the single also shot Björk into the spotlight in the United States, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot Singles Chart (#109 on the Hot 100). In the United Kingdom the single has been certified as Gold, having sold upwards of 400,000 copies. [http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp?rq=search_plat&r_id=20874]

Music video

The music video, directed by Spike Jonze, features Björk emerging from an extremely dirty washroom in an auto shop. She strolls down the main street of an American town and she is joined in song and dance, musical-style, by the local residents she meets along the way, including a group of elderly women, a dancing mailbox, and people dressed as Roman columns. Björk herself performs some tap-dancing.

The pace of the video corresponds with the song's tempo—during the slow portions of the song, the video runs in slow-motion but returns to regular speed for the uptempo parts of the song. The video ends with her floating up into the air in front of the camera while the entire town dances behind her.

In October 2007, MuchMoreMusic placed "It's Oh So Quiet" as number 8 of the Top 40 Most Memorable Music Videos on "Listed".

Track listing

UK CD1
(182TP7CD; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:40
# "You've Been Flirting Again" (Flirt Is A Promise Mix) - 3:23
# "Hyperballad" (Over the Edge Mix) - 4:33
# "Sweet Sweet Intuition" - 6:07

UK CD2
(182TP7CDL; Released: November, 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:40
# "Hyperballad" (Brodsky Quartet Version) - 4:21
# "Hyperballad" (Girls Blouse Mix) - 5:07
# "My Spine" - 2:33

EUR CD1
(577 509-2; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:38
# "You've Been Flirting Again" (Flirt Is A Promise Mix) - 3:20
# "Hyperballad" (Over the Edge Mix) - 4:31
# "Sweet Sweet Intuition" - 6:06

EUR CD2
(577 511-2; Released: November, 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:41
# "Hyperballad" (Brodsky Quartet Version) - 4:21
# "Hyperballad" (Girls Blouse Mix) - 5:06
# "My Spine" - 2:33

EUR CD Promo
(MUMCD70DJ; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet"

EUR VHS + CD Promo
(Released: 1995)

"VHS"
# "It's Oh So Quiet" (Video)"CD Promo"(MUMCD79DJ)
# "It's Oh So Quiet"

AUS CD
(577 511-2; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:42
# "Hyperballad" (Brodsky Quartet Version) - 4:21
# "Hyperballad" (Girls Blouse Mix) - 5:06
# "My Spine" - 2:33

US CD Promo
(PRCD 9322-2; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:37

US CD Promo
(64353-2; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet"
# "You've Been Flirting Again" (Icelandic Mix)

JPN CD
(POCP-7106; Released: 1995)

# "It's Oh So Quiet" - 3:40
# "Hyperballad" (Brodsky Quartet Version) - 4:21
# "Hyperballad" (Girls Blouse Mix) - 5:06
# "My Spine" - 2:33

Charts

External links

* [http://unit.bjork.com/77island/itsohsoquiet.htm List of "It's Oh So Quiet" releases]